CAS-ual Friday Fall

Wow. 

My boys went back to school this week and it seems as if the planet has tilted and we've all been thrown for a loop. 

Some crazy flooding weather here in upstate NY, the nuttiness of school-bus timetables, numerous school policy agreement forms to sign, our kitchen remodel...and I am so busy I can't seem to find time to breathe!

Oh, and did I mention our clothes dryer died last night? *sigh*

Anyway, it's FRIDAY and the weekend is almost here!

That means a new challenge at the CAS-ual Friday blog.

For this challenge we were to use paper-piecing on our fall-themed project.

Fun, right?

Our sponsor is Scraperfect, and we also have a guest girl friday temp working with us this week, Stacy Rodriguez!

I used one of my all-time favorite stamps for this card. Wintry Owls by Memory Box, and paper pieced the circles that make up the tree. Sentiment and Hatch grid stamps are from Practicing Creativity. 

I hope you'll join us with your paper-pieced fall themed card because as much as I don't want to admit it, fall weather is on its way here in Western NY.

Thanks for stopping by,

*mwah*

Baby congrats

Welcome.

Today I'm popping in with a sweet pastel baby card for a friend who doesn't know the sex of her baby yet. Greens and purples seem appropriate, although I usually go with orange in cases like this.

I made the BG paper with copic markers, and a few stamps. The white embossed image is  a Decorative Flourish  and the purple mini butterflies are just for fun!

Denami is holding an animal theme challenge so I wanted to include some on this card.

Giraffe, Polka Dot Elephant and Small Sheep were my choices, although I also colored and fussy cut a Tiny Turtle too. *chuckle* I just couldn't find a place to put him! 

A simple congrats sentiment and some copic colored seam binding finished this card off.

Join us by linking your Denami animal themed card up to the Denami blog!

Thanks for stopping by, Have a great Labor Day!

*mwah*

Literacy Day

Good Morning. Today's card is in honor of International Literacy Day (which was actually yesterday). The CAS-ual Friday challenge this week is to create a clean & simple card based on a book, but only using red, white, and black. Tricky, huh?

I based my card on one of my favorite books of all time: The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.

Come play along with us this week at CAS-ual Fridays and show us your CAS card based on a book!

Our sponsor is Paper & Such where you can find all sorts of crafty goodies.

The tree image on my card is from Wilson Designs Ride Away With Me, the apple is from Denami Designs, the sentiment is from PCD's Carved Love set. 

Thanks for stopping by today,

*mwah*

CAS-ual Friday!

It's Friday! 

This has been a crazy week in our house, but school will be starting up in two weeks (Sept. 7) and I know things will get even crazier!

So who's up for a new CAS challenge at the CAS-ual Friday blog?

How about stickers? (I know, I know, but the new style of stickers are really quite awesome!)

I honestly had a blast playing with the stickers the DT was sent by our sponsor this week, SRM Stickers.

 I couldn't resist using three different sized number sheets to create that fun BG on my card, and the sentiment is a sticker too! The edges of the stickers blended seamlessly onto my CS...look closely, you can see a few edges but not too many!

Pull out some stickers (you know you have some!) and join in on the fun this week at CAS-ual Fridays! 

Hope to see you there,

*mwah*

Product spotlight

Hey all!

I'm popping in today to share a product spotlight from Denami with you.

Aren't these colors fun? When I was playing around the other day I had navy blue, green and turquoise together but it needed something to lighten it up and apricot was just the thing! 

This Solid Polka Dot Border is so versatile, wait until you see what the entire DT has done with it! Check out the blog to see more samples.

I also used the Contempo Thank You sentiment here because I love the font...it's different and catches my eye, especially when stamped in navy to match the stitching.

Thanks for stopping by today, I hope your week is going well!

*mwah*

(Almost) Wordless Sunday

This card has been sitting in my draft posts for months now. I have no idea why. Maybe I was thinking of submitting it, but I clearly never got around to it, LOL!

Thanks for stopping by,

*mwah*

CAS-ual Friday!

Well, well, well. Can you believe it's Friday already? 

This week flew by for me and I feel like I've missed a few days somewhere. 

Does that ever happen to you?

On with the show anyway!

This week's challenge at the CAS-ual Fridays blog is all about embossing. Heat embossing or dry embossing, you decide.

I went with heat embossing by using white e.p. on cream CS with a stamp set by The Stamps Of Life, Friends4Ever. I love those large viney leaves. And the tiny spray of flowers started out cream but I doused them with Glimmer Mist for color!

The Stamps of Life also happen to be our sponsor this week, so be sure to check out the site...lots of unique clear stamp sets!

Play along with us this week and link your project using some form of embossing to the blog for a chance to win!

SO glad you stopped by today, have a great weekend,

*mwah*

Mini Cards blog hop

 Welcome!

I'm joining in the fun today with the Denami Design mini cards Blog Hop!

I get to be the lucky first stop (can you say pressure?!), but for a list of all participants, please see the Denami blog.

Because Denami makes so many cute tiny stamps, this was the perfect opportunity to let them shine.

I made a set of six mini cards,  2 1/8 x 2 1/8  and bundled them all together in a tiny clear boutique box.

Can you believe I used 14 different stamps on these mini cards? Yep.

And because these cards are so small, it was easy to make them for several different occasions. 

Once packaged together in the boutique box, they make a sweet little gift for a friend, neighbor, or teacher.

Secret time: I actually made two sets of these, because I wanted to keep some for myself! I plan on tucking one tiny card in my son's lunchbox come Monday! *wink* 

Remember, Denami is giving away TWO gift certificates to TWO people who comment along the hop, so be sure and leave a comment on each post!

Your next stop on this hop is the lovely and talented Amber!

Thanks for stopping by, a list of supplies used is below.

*mwah*

CAS-ual Friday

Okay.

Be honest here friends.

Is this a HOT MESS of a card?

I was rather pleased with it originally, but upon further inspection, began having second thoughts. 

Then I showed it to my 6 year old who promptly told me it was

 "Very good Mom, but why is it so messy at the bottom?"

*sigh*

It does look messy.

Instead of sponging the ink on the embossed image I went with stippling.

Clearly that wasn't such a good idea.

Never-the-less, I am posting it as my CAS-ual Friday challenge card today, in all its messy glory.

We are teaming up with the Clean and Simple Stamping sketch challenge this week...

And are sponsored by:

Come play along if you like a sketch challenge, or even if you don't (hey, that's why it's a challenge)! *grin*

And feel free to leave constructive criticisms...I can take the heat!

Thanks for stopping by, 

*mwah*

Love & Miss you

Hello everyone!

How's your summer going?

I'm swamped and chaotically busy, but so happy for all the warm weather. *smile*

It's time for a Denami Product spotlight so today's card focuses on the sweet rainbow stamp.

It's simple, but oh so cute.

And for one week only the rainbow is 10% off in the Denami store! 

This stamp is not only fun to color but it's also easy to paper piece like I did here.

I used sentiments from the Heartfelt Greetings and Assorted Greetings sets, and a perfect pink button to finish off the card.

Be sure to check out all the yummy samples that the DT has for you on display at the Denami Blog...you won't want to miss all the inspiration using this fun stamp!

Thanks for stopping by,

*mwah*

CAS-ual Fridays!

Comin' atcha today with a new CAS-ual Friday challenge!

And I'll be honest and admit that this was truly a challenge for me.

1. Glitter is not my thing.

2. I really don't care for glitter

3. Glitter and I? Nah, not so much.

BUT, 

with that said,

 I have a ton of it!

(In tiny bags that Sparkle & Sprinkle sends me as free samples when I place an e.p. order.) 

My first task was deciding what to do with these glue dots that the GLUE DOTS company so graciously sent all of us. (can you tell they are the sponsor this week? *grin*)

Once I knew I wanted to use my Tim Holtz mini crown mask, my second challenge was deciding on what colors of glitter to actually use!

I think I went overboard...

*grin*

Add in the glimmer mist and this card is in the running for Miss Glitter America! *groan*

You just HAVE to check out what the rest of the DT did...

I'm so lucky to work with such talented ladies.

Join us for some glittery glue dot fun this week!

See you on the flip side,

*mwah*

Denami/Lawn Fawn blog hop

Welcome to the Lawn Fawn/Denami Design Blog hop.

This 2-day event (today and tomorrow) will knock your socks off!

These two stamp companies are the perfect combination of fun, fun and more fun!

Both design teams were challenged to use stamps from both companies, and we have some amazing things to show you. *wink*

You should have arrived here from the uber-talented Teri Anderson, but to start at the beginning and see a list of each blog participant, go here.

 I used three Denami stamps:

 Open Box

Heartfelt Greetings

Harlequin Border

and one Lawn Fawn stamp from: 

Hello Friend. (yes, I cut it apart, but that's the beauty of clear stamps, right? *grin*)

This sweet card uses the large flower spray from Denami, and the sentiment from Lawn Fawn's Hello Friend! A perfect match, don't you think?

Lastly, I used 3 stamps from Denami:

Moon and Stars,

 Star Burst, 

and the Double-lined Square (makes a great frame!), 

and 3 stamps from Lawn Fawns set, How Delightful.

Your next stop on the hop is Lynette Kauffman.

Remember to comment on each blog both days for a chance at a $25 gift certificate to Lawn Fawn AND a $25 gift certificate to Denami Design. 

There will be a winner on BOTH days!

Now that is an awesome prize.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope you enjoy the hop and get lots of inspiration!

Good luck,

*mwah*

Glitter swirls

I'm popping in with a quick 5 minute card for the new challenge at the Simply Scrapping Crafts blog.

After printing the Tiffany's Doodles digital image (L.O.V.E letters) onto my white CS, I drew random swirls with my bottle of Tombow mono multi glue and dumped silver glitter on top.

Yes.

I can see they are all wonky.

In retrospect, I would probably pencil them in, in a planned sort of way, if I were to do it all over again.

But I'm being honest, and since this is my blog, I will put my bad ideas on here too!

HA.

But the digital image and the black twill ribbon look good...right? *chuckle*

If you want to join in our challenge just link up your card using glitter at Simply Scrapping Crafts for a chance at a fabby prize from Tiffany's Doodles!

Thanks for stopping by and putting up with me,

*mwah*